Tiana’s Bayou Adventure – Tiana’s guiding you
The heart of the attraction is, of course, Tiana herself. There are a number of audio animatronics of her that park guests encounter as she guides them into the bayou—and immersing visitors into the story is one of the main goals of the attraction. “One of the things that the team has worked really hard to accomplish here is to make sure that we connect with her, and she connects with us because she’s speaking directly to us,” Robledo shared. He explained that the Tiana figures are stationed in such a way that enhances the flow of the storytelling. “She’s looking at us straight in the eye, so our animators have to see her from [that] vantage point. A lot of work goes into bringing up that very complicated figure up there of Tiana—that’s what we have to do to kind of make sure she performs and she connects with us in the way that we need her to. So [there’s] lots of Tianas. But we also have a lot of friends like Mama Odie and Juju.”
